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【題目】請認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個(gè)最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意：每個(gè)空格只填1個(gè)單詞。請將答案寫在答題卡上相應(yīng)題號的橫線上。

You Should Read Every Day, Why?

I ask you a question. When was the last time you read a book, or a magazine article? Do your everyday reading habits centre around updates on the Internet? In case you are one of innumerable individuals who don’t make a habit of reading consistently you may be passing up a great opportunity: Reading has a noteworthy number of advantages and only a couple of advantages of reading are recorded below.

Everything you read fills your head with new bits of information and you never know when it might be useful to you. The more knowledge you have, the better prepared you are to overcome any challenge you’ll ever face. Additionally, here’s a bit of food for thought: Should you ever find yourself in terrible circumstances, remember that although you might lose everything else—your job, your possessions, your money, even your health—knowledge can never be taken from you.

At the same time, the more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll surely make their way into your everyday vocabulary. Being able to express your ideas clearly in words is of great help in any profession and knowing that you can speak to higher-ranking people with self-confidence can be a great encouragement to your self-esteem. It could even aid in your career as those who are well-read, well-spoken, and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly (and more often) than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific breakthroughs, and global events. Reading books is also vital for learning new languages, as non-native speakers gain exposure to words used in context, which will improve their own speaking and writing fluency.

When you read a book, you have to remember a lot of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history, as well as the various plots that weave their way through every story. That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are wonderful things and can remember these things easily. Amazingly enough, whenever you remember something new, new synapses are formed and existing ones are strengthened. How cool that is!

No matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story. A well-written novel can transport you to other fields while an interesting article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.

Benefits of Reading	Details
Knowledge Accumulation	The more you read, the more adequately it 【1】 you for various troubles in life. Knowledge is what will stay with you【2】.
Vocabulary 【3】	Your rich vocabulary may favour you in your job and make you confident when you talk with your leaders. It also means you are a great reader with rich knowledge, which gives you a big 【4】over others in promotions. Words in context will help a foreign language learner use the language 【5】.
【6】improvement	You will try to keep in mind the 【7】 of a book while reading and that is somewhat 【8】 for your brain. The more you try to remember, the 【9】you will be at remembering.
Stress reduction	An interesting reading will transfer your attention to its plots so that you feel 【10】and forget about your worries.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】prepares/equips

【2】forever/permanently

【3】expansion / enlargement

【4】advantage/edge

【5】fluently

【6】Memory

【7】contents

【8】easy/good/helpful

【9】better

【10】relaxed

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。文章主要介紹了讀書可以使人們積累知識、擴(kuò)大詞匯量、提高記憶力、減輕壓力。

【1】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)第二段中的“The more knowledge you have, the better- equipped you are to overcome any challenge you’ll ever face.”可知，你的知識儲備越多，你越能更好地克服人生的挑戰(zhàn)。主語it后缺少謂語動詞，用第三人稱單數(shù)，表示“做好準(zhǔn)備，武裝你”。故填prepares/equips。

【2】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)第二段中的“knowledge can never be taken from you.”可知，你的知識會永遠(yuǎn)跟隨你。此處應(yīng)用副詞修飾整個(gè)句子，故填forever/permanently。

【3】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)第三段中的“At the same time, the more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll surely make their way into your everyday vocabulary.”可知，同時(shí)，你讀得越多，你接觸到的單詞就越多，它們肯定會進(jìn)入你的日常詞匯表。由此可知，第三段主要講要擴(kuò)大詞匯量，此處是名詞短語，所以vocabulary后面應(yīng)用名詞形式。故填expansion / enlargement。

【4】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)第三段中的“It could even aid in your career as those who are well-read, well-spoken, and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly (and more often) than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific advances, and global events”可知，它甚至可以幫助你的職業(yè)生涯，因?yàn)槟切╅喿x能力強(qiáng)、口才好、對各種主題有知識的人比那些詞匯量較小、對文學(xué)、科學(xué)進(jìn)步和全球性事件缺乏認(rèn)識的人更容易獲得晉升(而且更頻繁)。即：閱讀可以為你的晉升帶來優(yōu)勢。故該空填advantage/edge。

【5】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)第三段中的“which will improve their own speaking and writing fluency”可知，這可以使得他們說得流利，寫得流利。該空對應(yīng)fluency，但該空修飾動詞speak和write，故要填副詞fluently。

【6】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段介紹的是讀書有助于提高記憶力。該段重復(fù)出現(xiàn)的remember就是提示，故填Memory。

【7】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“When you read a book, you have to remember a lot of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history as well as the various plots that weave their way through every story.”可知，當(dāng)你讀一本書時(shí)，你必須記住許多人物，他們的背景，志向，歷史以及各種故事情節(jié)。冠詞后用名詞，此處表示很多內(nèi)容，用名詞復(fù)數(shù)形式。故填contents。

【8】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“Amazingly enough, whenever you remember something new, new synapses are formed and existing ones are strengthened. How cool that is!”可知，令人驚奇的是，每當(dāng)你想起一些新事物時(shí)，新的突觸就會形成，而現(xiàn)有的突觸也會加強(qiáng)。多么酷��！此處表示記東西對大腦有好處/幫助，可以用easy，good，helpful。故填easy/good/helpful。

【9】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are wonderful things and can remember these things with relative ease”可知，你越努力去背誦，你越能更好地去記憶。這里考查“the+比較級，the+比較級”，表示“越……越……”，故填better。

【10】

考查篩選信息，分析信息，總結(jié)歸納信息的能力。根據(jù)最后一段中的“A well-written novel can transport you to other realms（領(lǐng)域）while an interesting article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.”可知，好的作品能讓你身臨其境。讓你感到放松忘掉憂傷，feel后面用形容詞作表語，故填relaxed。